Xapo · Bitcoin Wallet & Vault - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Xapo · Bitcoin Wallet & Vault published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Claim Bitcoin - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Claim Bitcoin published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet - Customized SSL, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Bitcoin Wallet - Customized SSL, External URLs, KeyStore usage vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Bitcoin Wallet published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Bitcoin Wallet - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Bitcoin Wallet published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

New Ransomware KimcilWare Targets Magento Websites

New ransomware called KimcilWare is targeting websites running the Magento ecommerce platform, used by the likes of Vizio, Olympus and Nike. According to security experts from the online community BleepingComputer, hackers exploit vulnerabilities in the Magento ecommerce platform and install the...

Researchers Learning More About Petya Ransomware

Researchers are digging through samples of the Petya ransomware, and while they’ve learned some about its inner workings, they still haven’t mastered enough to come up with a decryptor. Petya is the latest twist on crypto-malware. It was found recently targeting companies in Germany in a spam...

Petya Ransomware Master File Table Encryption

First ransomware locked your desktop. Then it encrypted your files. Not long after, webservers, shared drives and backups were targeted. Now? Introducing Petya, ransomware that targets the Master Boot Record. Spotted in email campaigns sent to human resources offices in German companies, the...

Microsoft Quietly Stops Accepting Bitcoin in Windows Store

Microsoft reckoned Bitcoin was the future of payment system and added it as a payment option for Windows store at the end of 2014, but the company has silently pulled support for Bitcoin in the Windows 10 Store. In November 2014, Microsoft struck a deal with third-party bitcoin payment processor...

Locky Ransomware Now Part Of Massive Spam Attack

Researchers are tracking a massive spam campaign pelting inboxes with Locky ransomware downloaders in the form of JavaScript attachments. The huge spike, reported by security firm Trustwave, represents an extraordinary uptick in the attempted distribution of the Locky ransomware. Trustwave said...

First Mac OS X Ransomware Targets Apple Users

Mac users, even you are not left untouched! The World's first fully functional Ransomware targeting OS X operating system has been landed on Macs. Ransomware – one of the fastest-growing cyber threats – encrypts the important documents and files on infected machines and then asks victims to pay...

CTB-Locker/Critroni Finds New Legs Targeting Websites

After months of relative dormancy, ransomware CTB-Locker or Critroni is back and this time finding new life targeting websites. Researchers are calling this variant “CTB-Locker for Websites” because it targets websites, encrypts their content, and demands a 0.4 bitcoin $425 ransom for access to t...

CoinSpace Bitcoin Wallet - BSD license, MIT license vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application CoinSpace Bitcoin Wallet published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Locky Ransomware Borrows Tricks from Dridex

It’s been difficult to keep track of all the different strains of ransomware that have plagued users over the last year or two. Unlike many of them the latest to grab headlines is spreading through a decidedly old school vector: document-based macros. Named Locky, the ransomware appears to borrow...

Hollywood Hospital Pays $17,000 Ransom to Hacker for Unlocking Medical Records

Ransomware has seriously turned on to a noxious game of Hackers to get paid effortlessly. Once again the heat was felt by the Los Angeles-based Presbyterian Medical Center when a group of hackers had sealed all its sensitive files and demanded $17,000 USD to regain the access to those compromised...

Critical glibc Flaw Puts Linux Machines and Apps at Risk (Patch Immediately)

A highly critical vulnerability has been uncovered in the GNU C Library glibc, a key component of most Linux distributions, that leaves nearly all Linux machines, thousands of apps and electronic devices vulnerable to hackers that can take full control over them. Just clicking on a link or...

Disabled PadCrypt Ransomware Includes Live Chat, Uninstaller

Several flavors of ransomware, most notably Cryptowall, have come packaged with support features. But a new piece of crypto-ransomware called PadCrypt has upped the game with a live chat feature that victims can use to interact with the attackers about ransom payments and other information...

Wanna Mine Bitcoins Faster? Researchers Find New Way to Do it

A new machine for Bitcoin Mining called "Approximate Hardware" would make Bitcoin mining easier. Bitcoin had gained tremendous popularity over a few couple of years among the virtual currencies due to its decentralized principle. Mining a single Bitcoin is not an ice cake walk, as it requires an...

WinREST Remote Privilege Escalation

So a year back I was massively scanning internet. This case ISPs IPs blocks where you can find easily at RIPE for example. Then I found some interesting hosts where SMB were open and the ACL is totally open to root file system with the same netbios name. All file system is writable. I was able to...

bitcoin.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.bitcoin.com/linkwarning?domain=%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert0%3C%2Fscript%3E%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%22XSSPOSED%22%3C%2Fscript%3E%3E=Nasrul07 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 17.02.2016 Latest check for patch:| 17.02.2016 13:32 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS...